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1'1' | (1') who resides in the ciy Dūr-kat[limmu, the] holy [shrine], his beloved abode, the great lord, his lord: | |
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3'3' | (3') Pālil-ēreš, [the gover]nor of the land R[asappa], the city [Nēmed-Ištar, (and) the city Apk]u, had a gol[den sw]ord made and made and presented an image of Adad-nārārī (III), king of Assyria, his lord, to the god Salmānu (Text: “Adad-nārārī, king of Assyria”), his lord, who protects the throne of his priesthood, to give into his hands the scepter that shepherds the people, for the well-being of his seed, the well-being of the people of Assyria and the well-being of Assyria, to scatter his adversaries, to destroy his fierce foes, (and) to make rulers (who are) his enemy bow down at his feet. | |
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16'16' | (16') (As for) whoever removes this image from the presence of the god Salmānu, puts it into another place, whether he throws it into water, covers it with earth, or brings and places (it) into a Taboo House, where it is inaccessible, may the god Salmānu, the great lord, overthrow his kingship (and) make his name (and) his seed disappear for the land. May he live in a contingent together with the slave women of his land. | |
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Based on K. Radner, "The Stele of Adad-nērāri III and Nergal-ēreš from Dūr-Katlimmu (Tell Šaiḫ Ḥamad)," AoF 39 (2012) pp. 265-277. Adapted and lemmatized by Nathan Morello (2020) for the Munich Open-access Cuneiform Corpus Initiative (MOCCI), a corpus-building initiative funded by LMU Munich and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (through the establishment of the Alexander von Humboldt Chair for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East) and based at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0. Please cite this page as http://oracc.org/riao/Q004797/.